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Fig. 1. Academic Discussion Lists, represented by bidirectional black arrows in the lower figure,
allow subscribers in one discipline to communicate not only with each other but also with the
WWW and thence with subscribers in other disciplines, thus surmounting the interdisciplinary
boundaries shown in the top figure. [From “What Can We Learn from Biologists” [Hake
(1999).] Compare this figure with the web-linked map of science from the clickstream data of
Bollen et al. (2009) shown in the REFERENCES list below.
“Change requires ongoing interaction among communities of people and institutions that will
reinforce and drive reform. ……. educators need to form 'invisible colleges’ resembling the national
and international research communities.” From Analysis to Action [NSF (1996)]
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